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STREET SECTS ANNOUNCE SPRAWLING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR AHEAD OF SOPHOMORE ALBUM’S RELEASE The Kicking Mule will be released on October 26 via The Flenser. See the band on the road in support of it through December.
Industrial metal visionary Author & Punisher will deliver his sixth full-length recording and Relapse debut Beastland on October 5th. In anticipation of its release, the album’s second single, “Night Terror” has surfaced today (listen now on YouTube).
CULT LEADER ANNOUNCE NEW LP, ‘A PATIENT MAN’ Due out November 9th via Deathwish Inc. Listen to “I Am Healed” now.
Leigh McCloskey, the actor interpreting the main character, Mark Elliot, in Inferno, found Dario Argento “a very interesting observer, but also a very introverted, sort of introspective observer”, despite the fact that there was a language barrier, as Dario wasn’t speaking English and had his brother, Claudio, as a translator. Inferno is the second part of...
Floridian punks Gouge Away will release their Deathwish debut, Burnt Sugar, on September 28th. Today, the band has announced extensive worldwide touring in support of it; first, an East Coast run alongside Culture Abuse followed by a UK tour together. Upon their return to the States, Gouge Away will head back out on the road in November, this time with Drug Church. The tour will take the bands from the West Coast, through the Midwest, eventually ending back in Gouge Away’s home state. Look for detailed tour information below.
CULTURE ABUSE ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF ‘BAY DREAM’ See them on the road with Nothing this September, then on a headline tour in North America and Europe in October.
Oakland, CA power trio Super Unison have announced their sophomore LP Stella, which is set for release October 26th via Deathwish Inc. Today, the band has shared the album’s swirling and swelling first single, “Falcon” — listen to (and share) the song now on YouTube.
As urgent and tense as a hunting knife pressed to your quickening jugular, post-punk duo Street Sects’ forthcoming sophomore LP The Kicking Mule presents ten intimate vignettes about self-sabotage, visiting themes like battling mental illness, addiction, alienation and more. Though primarily known as masters of cacophonous samples and jittery electronic stutter, Street Sects' new album represents a seismic shift in execution by applying those ideas to that of the romantic yet experimental approach of Roxy Music/Brian Eno as well as Berlin-era Bowie. Remind yourself of the way "Something I Can Never Have" fits on Pretty Hate Machine– a section of serenity within a blanket of attack.
Buried Language, the sophomore effort from Denver-based industrial duo Echo Beds (comprised of Keith Curts and Tom Nelsen), is an album indebted to the past. Inspired by a tumultuous end to 2016, in which the pair were locked out of their rehearsal space and their gear was held hostage by city officials, Buried Language is steeped in rage and embittered self-reliance. Listen to the album in its entirety via Brooklyn Vegan today.
One month from today, San Francisco post-black-metal band Bosse-de-Nage will release their highly-anticipated fifth full-length Further Still. The album marks a bold diversion from Bosse-de-Nage’s typically sprawling arrangements in favor of airtight, propulsive song structures. Deliberately succinct and fuming, the grip of nine new tracks finds Bosse-de-Nage pitting their unique lyrical structures against hairpin turning melodies.